The New Iraqi Journal of Medicine

The New Iraqi Journal of Medicine was founded in 2005 and it became the official journal of the Iraqi Ministry of Health and Iraq headquarter of Copernicus Scientists International Panel. The journal was the first Iraqi medical journal to be listed and indexed by international index which is the Copernicus Journal Master list.The aim of this book is to publish the scientific articles published in December issue of "The New Iraqi Journal of Medicine" Volume one, 2005.In this issue, distinguished authors from outside Iraq contributed to the journal. In addition, the journal published an editorial about a newly proposed CME scoring system.This issue also includes Iraqi research in the fields of psychiatry, neonatology, general surgery, and laparoscopic surgery.